The lonely sunsets flare forlorn <br /> Down valleys dreadly desolate; <br />The lordly mountains soar in scorn <br /> As still as death, as stern as fate. <br /> <br />The lonely sunsets flame and die; <br /> The giant valleys gulp the night; <br />The monster mountains scrape the sky, <br /> Where eager stars are diamond-bright. <br /> <br />So gaunt against the gibbous moon, <br /> Piercing the silence velvet-piled, <br />A lone wolf howls his ancient rune -- <br /> The fell arch-spirit of the Wild. <br /> <br />O outcast land! O leper land! <br /> Let the lone wolf-cry all express <br />The hate insensate of thy hand, <br /> Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-land-god-forgot/
